Lantern Festival this day.
Gu Wuyou got up early and didn't bring anyone with her, just like when she was in school, she asked the driver to drop her on the East Street.
She was wearing a bright-colored cloak today, with a lilac-colored shirt and skirt under it. Her hair was draped over her shoulders, and she was only held by a few silver butterflies with tassels. It was still early. When she got off the carriage, There was no one on the street except for the vendors selling breakfast.
She originally thought that she came early, but she didn't expect that just as she got off the carriage, she saw Li Qinyuan standing at the entrance of the alley.
He is still the same today as before, his hair is combed into a high ponytail, tied with a white jade buckle, a blue-white cloak is wrapped around him, and he holds a bunch of candied haws in his hand. Draw a bright smile.
Haven't seen it for a few days.
Looking at Gu Wuyou like this, she always felt that her general seemed to have changed a lot, became more mature and more stable, her heartbeat was thumping, and the steps under her feet were like a yellow warbler on the branch, with excitement. And with a happy mood, step by step toward the person.
"What are you doing running so fast?" Li Qinyuan saw her coming, and quickly raised his hand to help her to prevent her from falling.
Gu Wuyou didn't speak, just stared at him. Her clear Xing'er's eyes were clear and bright. Usually, if she looked at someone unintentionally for a while, it would make the other person's heart pounding, let alone something like this. Staring at people for a moment, as if in this world, she only has you in her eyes.
Li Qinyuan's heart was also beating very fast. He raised his hand and scratched her nose lightly, and asked softly, "I'm so good-looking, I make you look stupid."
Isn't it stupid
As long as she thinks about today, she won't be able to see him for a long, long time, and Gu Wuyou's heart has thousands of reluctance, she pursed her lips, nodded again, and then she was not ashamed at all, extremely Seriously said: "I want to see you for a while and keep you in my heart."
If these words were put in normal times, it would be a perfect love story, I am afraid that Li Qinyuan would have to be blushed by her words.
But on a day like this, thinking of the upcoming parting makes people feel sad but reluctant. Li Qinyuan originally wanted to say a few jokes to dispel the sadness of parting and accompany her through this hard-won life. One day, in the end, he just raised his arm and stroked her head, and spoke to her in a very soft voice, "Let's go, go to Uncle Zhang's place to eat wontons."
Gu Wuyou nodded, and was stuffed with a bunch of candied haws again, and then was led by Li Qinyuan into the alley.
They haven't been here for a while.
But this alley is still the same as before. Before I got to Uncle Zhang’s side, I heard a lot of joking and laughing sounds from a distance, as well as some hawkers hawking. The most lively was Uncle Zhang’s breakfast stall. , he has been here for decades, and everyone in the hutong knows him.
Even if he doesn't buy breakfast, he will talk to him.
Looking at the two of them from a distance, the group of people who were talking and laughing just now suddenly stopped talking, and their eyes widened. In the end, Lao Zhang responded first, put down the spoon and smiled at them: "You guys have some time. The days are coming, hurry up, it's cold outside, go inside, I'll do it for you when I'm busy."
Li Qinyuan nodded, greeted the person, and took the initiative to play the curtain.
After Gu Wuyou entered, he followed suit.
The people outside saw them go in, so they said in a low voice, "This little Li Gongzi is next to the girl who has been looking for him before? Why did I see them holding hands just now?"
"I saw it too!" Someone responded and said, "I saw that Young Master Li was ignoring the girl before, and thought it was the girl who was unrequited love, but the way they looked just now, the two were afraid Isn't it done?"
People in the alley like to talk about these things when they have nothing to do.
Usually, someone's dog ate someone's chicken for three or four days, let alone such a thing, but Lao Zhang is a sensible person. Although he is also surprised, he will not say these things. Naturally, he wouldn't let others say in front of him, he smashed the soup spoon in his hand into the pot, making a crisp sound, smashing the arguments of those people, and then he opened his mouth with a sullen face, "Said Done? Go home when you're done."
"I told you a long time ago not to talk about other people's noble people's affairs, but to turn back and let people hear them and see if you can bear the guilt!"
"Hey, Lao Zhang, you're not interesting anymore, we'll just say a few words here..." Before he finished speaking, he pouted when he saw Lao Zhang's dark face, "Okay, don't talk, don't. Speaking of which, it makes us so rare."
The leader scolded and walked away, and the others also felt that it was hard to save face, so they also followed.
After a while, the bustling breakfast shop just now became deserted. Old Zhang didn't mind, and threw dozens of wontons down. When the wontons floated up, he threw a handful of chopped green onion into a bowl. The other one put the seasoning, flipped the spoon in his hand and put a spoonful of wontons in each of the two bowls, and then went in with two boxes of xiaolongbao, a tray, and a curtain.
When I entered, I saw two people sitting at the old table.
But it's not the same as before.
In the past, every time he went in, the little girl stared at Young Master Li, and no one said a word. Today, Young Master Li was staring at people all the time. When she saw that she was covered in syrup when she was eating candied fruit, she went back to her. It's funny and indulgent, wiping people's lips.
"Eat slowly, like a little tabby cat."
Being told this, Gu Wuyou's face can't help but turn a little red, she is more and more like to act like a spoiled child at him now, it will be blamed, "Who asked you to buy it for me, I said that the candied gourd sticks to the teeth Now, you let me eat it every time I put on makeup."
After speaking, he pouted with an unhappy look on his face, "Look, the mouth fat is all spent."
"Let's see." Li Qinyuan said as he approached the person, raised her chin with his slender fingers, looked up and down, left and right for a long time, and asked her, "Did you wear makeup?"
Gu Wuyou nodded. When she was dating someone for the first time, she was embarrassed, but now she has no psychological burden at all, and she winked at him, "Does it look good?"
Li Qinyuan shook his head, not afraid of being beaten at all, "It doesn't look good."
"You—" Gu Wuyou was unhappy, and wanted to wave his hand away, ignoring others, but Li Qinyuan's hand was so strong that she couldn't let go even if it didn't hurt anyone, so she stared at him and said angrily: "It doesn't look good, you still see it!"
As he said that, he covered his eyes with his hands, with a particularly strong temper: "You are not allowed to look!"
Seeing that she was angry, Li Qinyuan started to coax her again, just like teasing a kitten, with a long tone and an irresistible smile, teasing her, "Angry?"
Gu Wuyou ignored him.
Li Qinyuan laughed again, "I lied to you just now, you look good, you are the most beautiful in my heart." His eyes were blocked and he couldn't see it, so he kissed her palm and waited for her to withdraw. When she saw that the corners of her mouth were obviously unable to hold her hand, she still had to press down, and she said, "I like it whether you put on makeup or make up your face."
When he spoke, he looked at her with a very serious tone.
Gu Wuyou didn't know if she was stared at like this, or because of his serious words, her face turned red all of a sudden. She was just playing coquettish with others, but she wasn't really angry with him, but now she sees what he said. Being so serious, I couldn't help turning my ears red, and whispered, "Why are you so serious?"
Li Qinyuan wanted to say more, when he heard a chuckle from outside, "Breakfast is here."
The old man couldn't wait any longer.
He is old, and he is tired and crooked, but he can't see it for so long, so he can only interrupt them first.
Seeing Lao Zhang coming in, Gu Wuyou was a little shy and wanted to let go of his hand, but Li Qinyuan refused to let go. He sat back generously, held her hand, and greeted Lao Zhang, "Are you busy?"
Lao Zhang smiled, "I'm not busy, just some neighbors came over to talk and chat."
As he spoke, he arranged breakfast for the two of them, then looked at Li Qinyuan and said, "I heard from my kid a few days ago that you did well in the exam a few years ago, and many gentlemen are praising you."
"Why did it go outside?"
Li Qinyuan was a little helpless, but he didn't say anything. He helped Gu Wuyou pour out the vinegar, and then he wiped the chopsticks and spoons for others, and then said to Lao Zhang, "I forgot to ask you, how did Zhang Yuan do in the test this time? Are you sure you can enter the academy?"
"Thank you for that!"
When Lao Zhang heard this, he smiled brightly, "Thanks to the materials you gave him, he was able to do well in the exam last time. Master Li also said that as long as he can maintain such a grade, he will definitely be admitted to Luming Academy in the future."
The one from his family left early, leaving only such a single seedling.
He has no intention of marrying again all these years, and is looking forward to his only son becoming a talent.
"By the way—" Lao Zhang looked at them and said, "It just so happens that the academy hasn't started yet. If you have time today, you can go home for a meal later, so that our father and son can thank you."
Li Qinyuan: "I'm afraid it won't work this time. We still have something to do today."
Lao Zhang smiled and said, "It's okay, when you are free, come over and say hello. Anyway, I can close the stall at any time."
Li Qinyuan glanced at Gu Wuyou, and then said to Lao Zhang, "I'm afraid it will take a year."
"What?" Old Zhang was taken aback, looked at Li Qinyuan, and then at Gu Wuyou, "What's the point of this? Could it be that you have to go out? No... Isn't this exam a few months old? You are this Where are you going?"
"Something has to go out."
Li Qinyuan didn't go into details, he picked up another xiaolongbao for Gu Wuyou, and then smiled and said to Lao Zhang, "We'll come back next time when we come back."
The word "we" made Gu Wuyou look up at him, and the parting melancholy in her heart also faded a lot. Looking at him, her eyes slowly curled up, and her smile was like a flower. After a while, she also turned her head and said Lao Zhang said, smiling, in the same words as Li Qinyuan, "Uncle Zhang, let's come back together again."
Old Zhang is not someone who gets to the bottom of things, so he naturally didn't ask any more questions when he heard these words, he smiled and responded, "No matter when you come, I will serve you delicious food here."
Then he looked at them again, just like yesterday, and sighed: "Last time, when I saw you two, I thought you were very worthy, but I didn't expect to be together now..." I remembered the last time the little girl was alone came over for dinner, although I don't know what happened next.
But there was one thing he wanted to ask all the time, "Mr. Li, did you come last time? I looked at you from a distance, and I always felt a little like it."
Gu Wuyou was eating wontons, when he heard the words, he blinked, "Which time?"
Could it be that the General later came here to have breakfast with her on his back
As soon as Li Qinyuan heard this, he felt bad, and just wanted to speak out, but he was not as fast as Lao Zhangkou, "The time you came alone, you asked me if Young Master Li was here, but after waiting for a long time, no one came. left first."
That time—
Wasn't that the first time the general had said nothing
She was still sad for a long time at that time. She looked at a table of food by herself and didn't move a single bite. Fortunately, she ran into the general on the long street later.
Could it be…
Gu Wuyou was like a blessing to his heart, he turned his head to look at Li Qinyuan, and asked, "Did you come that time?"
Li Qinyuan didn't speak, but his ears were a little red, as if the old things had been cut out, a little embarrassed... Gu Wuyou sees him like this, why is there something he doesn't understand? Immediately, her eyes were bent again, and the water waves contained in them were shining like jewels under the refraction of the sun.
Bright and brilliant.
The tone is also firm: "I knew you would not lie to me."
This time, Li Qinyuan blushed first, while Gu Wuyou looked at him unblinkingly, and Lao Zhang smiled with a smile on his face. !"
Gu Wuyou knew that he was shy, so he didn't bother him, smiled and continued to bow his head to eat breakfast.
The mood seems to be much better.
Lao Zhang looked at them like this, didn't say anything, just looked at them and smiled.
Waiting to say goodbye to Mr. Zhang.
The two went to the academy. Although the school had not yet started, the academy was always open. Except for a few servants, they didn't see anyone. When they came in, they were stunned for a while, but they didn't say anything. After greeting each other, they went to work on their own.
The two walked around the academy first, the big tree that they met for the first time, the small woods they had been meeting with, and the horse farm, and finally they came to Jixianyuan.
The results of the last exam are still posted here, but after the wind, frost and rain, the paper has become yellow and wrinkled.
Gu Wuyou happily took his hand and went over to talk to him, "I kept searching along this piece of paper that time, but I couldn't find it no matter how I looked, I was afraid that you would be sad when you found out. Hesitating whether to hide this piece of paper quietly."
I didn't expect the little girl to think so.
Li Qinyuan raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Aren't you afraid that Mr. Xu will be angry when he finds out? There is also Mr. Pan, his pointer doesn't care about men or women. If you let him know, he might hit you in the palm of your hand."
"I'm afraid." Gu Wuyou didn't hide it, and said very calmly, "I'm most afraid of pain."
"Then..." Before he could finish speaking, Gu Wuyou had already turned his head, looked him in the eyes and said, "But I'm more afraid that you will be disappointed."
She said these words very lightly, and when the wind blew, they scattered and didn't know where to go, but Li Qinyuan's heart was hit hard by her words, like a heavy hammer hitting the bottom of his heart, letting him His heart softened instantly.
He couldn't help raising his hand and pulling the person into his arms.
The world was silent, only his heartbeat was like a drum. In the sound of his heartbeat, which rang through his ears, Li Qinyuan didn't say anything. Disappointed?"
But now, he will not ask these words again.
He knew what she was thinking and what she hoped in her heart, but only wished him well.
In his arms, Gu Wuyou whispered, "Isn't it good for us to be like this?" After all, he was still in the academy.
Li Qinyuan refused to let go, buried his face in her neck, his voice was soft, as if he was acting like a spoiled child, "No one is there anyway."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a light cough not far away. After all, Gu Wuyou was still a little shy, and quickly broke free from his arms. He turned to look and saw that Xu Fu and Pan Shu were looking at him. Seeing them, her face turned red again.
Li Qinyuan was not frightened, nor did he feel that there was anything to be ashamed of.
Anyway, they already know almost everything they should know, especially Xu Fu, who made fun of him a long time ago... He gave the two of them a teacher-student salute, bowed slightly, and shouted, "Mr. Xu, Mr Pan."
Gu Wuyou also greeted them.
Pan Shu ignored them.
Xu Fu smiled and said, "Why did you think of coming to the academy?"
Li Qinyuan replied, "I'm leaving tomorrow, I think I'll come back to the academy before I leave."
After he finished speaking, Xu and Pan were silent for a while, and after a while, Xu Fu came over and patted him on the shoulder, "I already know about you, I told you at the beginning. However, everyone has their own path to take, you don’t have to worry about this path, whether we like it or not, as long as you like it and insist on it, that’s enough.”
"You live in this world, not for others, but for yourself."
Hearing what he said, Li Qinyuan was also a little touched. He nodded at the person, and his voice was a little lower, "I know."
Xu Fu didn't say anything else, but Pan Shu, who had been silent for a while, suddenly jumped out a few words, "I knew for a long time that you are a rebellious, good road, you don't want to go, you have to go outside... "He was used to being cold and harsh, and he couldn't say anything pleasant.
And he really didn't think Li Qinyuan's path was right.
Seeing people want to persuade a few words, but thinking of Li Qinyuan's temper, he shook his head and said with a cold face: "Since you have made up your mind, do it well, if you can't do it well, don't call it my student, I can't lose it. Raise people like you!"
Li Qinyuan smiled and said, "Then why did you go to the theory with other gentlemen for my test scores?"
Xu Fu and Pan Shu, especially Pan Shu, could get so much points in his previous strategy theory... He could have heard that that day, this Mr. Pan fought against the crowd and forced everyone to convince him, and that's why he has sixth position.
"You—" Pan Shu seemed to be in disbelief, remembered something, turned back to look at Xu Fu, and shouted through gritted teeth, "Xu Bingyan!"
Xu Fu smiled and said, "Hey, don't be angry, what can't you say?"
If there were no students, he would have done it a long time ago, but there are still students. He gritted his teeth, and finally turned around and walked into the school with a red face. Xu Fu called him from behind, "You don't come with me to Liulan. Did you eat then?"
They are all far away, and Pan Shu's voice is still like a bell, "Don't go!"
"This person..." Xu Fu shook his head helplessly, looked at Li Qinyuan and Gu Wuyou again, and said with a smile, "Just right, if you're all right today, go to Liu Lan's with me. She mentioned you to me before."
Li Qinyuan looked down at Gu Wuyou and asked her what she meant.
"Go." Gu Wuyou said with a smile, "I haven't seen Aunt Liu for a while."
"Um."
Li Qinyuan nodded and looked at Xu Fu, "Let's go then."
The conversation between the two was very natural and very familiar, as if they were born to be like this, but Xu Fu, who was standing by the side, looked at him with surprise. He could be considered to have grown up watching Li Qinyuan as a child, and he knew his temperament, said: He is too playful, but he is indeed an unruly master.
I didn't expect to be able to talk to people in such a soft-spoken way and consult others' opinions, which is really surprising.
In addition to being surprised, the worry in my heart was a little less.
There is a change, someone can persuade him, it's better than going all the way to the end like before... He smiled and didn't say anything, and led them out, the three of them rode in a carriage, but did not immediately go to Liu Lan went there, but first went to a pastry shop on West Street.
Xu Fu got out of the car and went shopping.
Li Qinyuan and Gu Wuyou sat in the carriage.
The business of this shop is very prosperous. Gu Wuyou lifted the curtain of the car and looked at the long queue outside. Seeing Xu Fu standing in the middle of a group of old and young women and children with a refined face, no matter how you looked at him, he felt out of place, but he was not unusual at all. They will also smile and nod to greet them.
She couldn't help sighing, "Mr. Xu is so kind to Aunt Liu."
As soon as he finished speaking, the boy who held her hand just now suddenly stood up. Gu Wuyou was stunned for a moment. He looked back at him and saw that he was about to get off the carriage. He quickly pulled his sleeve and asked, "Where are you going?"
Li Qinyuan said without looking back, "I'll buy you some cakes."
"what?"
Gu Wuyou was a little unresponsive, and after recalling what he said earlier, he couldn't help laughing, holding his hand, and said softly, "Silly brother, I don't like to eat the pastries here."
Li Qinyuan stopped the action of getting off the carriage, looked back and asked her, "Then what do you like to eat?"
Gu Wuyou looked at him and smiled, "I don't want to eat anything today, I just want to be with you."
"you… "
Li Qinyuan's heart beat fast, and his eyelids softened a little. He looked at Gu Wuyou and saw her smiling innocently. He couldn't help but feel that the thoughts in his heart were too salty and dirty, as if they had stained people, so he could only be bored. With a high voice, Yu Sheng said angrily, "Just know how to hook me."
"what?"
Gu Wuyou didn't hear it.
"...Nothing." Li Qinyuan naturally wouldn't tell her, pursed his lips and sat back.
It happened that Xu Fu came back after buying the cakes, and when he saw the two of them holding hands, he couldn't help turning his head away, looking like he didn't see it, "If I had known, I might as well take a carriage by myself."
Gu Wuyou blushed when someone said it, but he didn't break free from Li Qinyuan's hand. He sat in the carriage, looked at Xu Fu and smiled calmly, "Mr. Xu, it's cold outside, come up and sit down."
Xu Fu didn't say anything else, smiled and said "Okay".
This time the carriage didn't stop, and it stopped all the way to the mouth of the alley where Liu Lan lived.